[Python-Dev] Proposal: add odict to collections (original) (raw)

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Sun Jun 15 14:40:36 CEST 2008

Armin Ronacher wrote:

- in XML/HTML processing it's often desired to keep the attributes of an tag ordered during processing. So that input ordering is the same as the output ordering.

- [...] XML libraries such as etree could add support for it when creating elements or return attribute dicts.

I hope that what you call "etree" here (I assume you mean ElementTree) would stay compatible to lxml.etree in that case. Meaning: adding or replacing an attribute removes a possibly existing entry and appends the new value at the end.

Stefan

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